Polpo is presented at Salone del Milano
5.–10. Sept. 2021
Emilie Appercé
(*1990, Paris)
Würzgrabenstrasse 6, 8048 Zurich
mail@emilieapperce.com
Emilie Appercé (b.1990 Paris, France) is a Paris – Zürich based architect, editor and founding member of Zurich International, educated both at the EAVT Paris-Est, and Accademia di Architettura, Mendrisio. She teaches at the Chair of Prof. Adam Caruso at the Department of Architecture, ETH Zürich, as a studio/diploma teaching assistant.
Together with architect, writer, and publisher Helen Thomas, she is an editor of womenwritingarchitecture.org, a global online annotated bibliography and network addressing gender parity in architectural education and cultural production, as well as the publishing house women writing architecture (publishing). She works independently and collaboratively in various fields of creation, including architecture, design, publishing, exhibitions, writing, and art production.
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Clients and Collaborations: Atelier Liaohui Guo, Thomas Demand, Kvadrat, Modern Animal Gallery, ETH Zürich, GTA Exhibitions, Caruso St John architects, sun.works gallery, The Watermill Center, Drawing Matter, Roots and friends.
suns.works’gallery took up residence on the top floor former headquarters of Credit Suisse of the Hochhaus zur Palme, a modernist high-rise in Zurich, before its imminent transformation. Aggressively futuristic at the time, projecting a confidence in never-ending progress, it is now a landmark.
The show embraced the high-modernist aesthetics of Hochhaus zur Palme and the sombre atmosphere of the eponymous story of New Rose Hotel, whose techno-erotic vision of the future, coloured by millennial anxiety, appears much closer to present-day sensibilities.
set design together with Matthew Phillips. Exhibition participation, Manon Gaeschlin, Martin Jaeggi.
Photos credits Flavio Leone
Stool produced for Milano Design Week 2021
6 mm recycled moulded plastic
41x ø38 cm / 6kg 4 colour options
Photos credits Dominic Kim, Selina Feuerstein
conversation with Anders Byriel, CEO of Kvadrat, textile makers compagny, as part of this publication, on the question of patronage, legacy, narratives, pleasure and celebration.
The Triple Folly presents the rich collaboration between artist Thomas Demand, architects Caruso St John, and Kvadrat which produced a new pavilion for Kvadrat’s Ebeltoft campus.
This publication presents extensive images of the completed buildings alongside other illustrated conversations with Frank Gehry, Denise Scott Brown, Adam Caruso, Valerie Verhack, and Thomas Demand.
Zurich International, Zürich (CH)
2022-on going
transformation and adaptive re-use of the Zurich International office
together with members of the Zurich International Verein
In 2022, the chair of Jan de Vylder at ETH Zurich began a 3-year experiment at the Furka Pass, (in:dépendance), 2429m above sea level and only accessible 4 months a year.
Women Writing Architecture represented by Helen Thomas, London-Zürich based architect, publisher, Jaehee Shin, architect, WWA editor born in Korea, and Emilie Appercé,
met together in this high Swiss pass to consider the work of a woman from a far distant time and place.
Led by D. Graham Burnett, Professor of History and History of Science at Princeton University and Hermione Spriggs, London-based artist, researcher.
At The Watermill Center, founded by theater and visual artist Robert Wilson.
Together with Graham Burnett, Hermione Spriggs, Catherine Hansen, Kyle Berlin, Anacarolina Marques, Brad Fox.
Place de Stalingrad, Paris (F)
2020-on going
Client: Private
Project of a winter bar Place de la Bataille de Stalingrad
Steel truss structure, outer skin of galvanised steel corrugated sheet, PVC slatted opening closures
Museumstrasse, Biel (CH)
2021
In collaboration with Silvio Schubiger
Restoration of a single-family house in a former villa divided into three parts.
3d scanned documentation of the on going construction site
Teaching, Events, Publication
06.2023 | From Canteen to Pasture, workshop organised together with Leo Bettini, with the Architecture Department ETH Zurich and the support of the Chair of Architecture and Construction of Adam Caruso and the restaurants Roots & friends (Even GmbH) |
02.2023 | Founding of the publishing house wwa publishing and Tisch Zwei Verein, together with Helen Thomas |
09.2022 | Summer residency in:dépendance, representing womenwritingarchitecture, invited by Professor Jan De Vylder, ETH Zürich, Furka, CH |
11.2022 | Guest lecturer with Leo Bettini for a weeklong workshop on Die Ecken, at the institut Raum für Gestalt, TU Graz (AT), invited by Prof. Dr. Alexander Lehnerer |
08.2022 | Summer residency at The Watermill Center, US, invited by D. Graham Burnett, Professor of History and History of Science, Princeton University and Hermione Spriggs, a London-based artist, researcher and exhibition-maker |
04.2022 | Guest critic, Centre d'art, Jury de fin d'année, École d’architecture de la ville et des territoires Paris-Est |
02.2022 | Always work in Progress, Exhibition and Talk with Helen Thomas, Barbara Thüler (Women Writing Architecture), Stéphanie Dadour, Claudia Mion hosted by Caryatide at la Galerie d’Architecture de Paris |
02.2022 | Guest, Workshop On Cemeteries, Atelier Amont with Anna Staudt, Mendrisio |
11.2021 | Guest critic, Story II, Studio Maria Conen, ETH Zürich |
10.2021 | Prelude, Belgian Art & Design Fair in Ghent |
09.2021 | Reading Room, Annexe at the ZAZ Zentrum Architektur Zürich |
06.2021 | LOTO Life Of The Others VIII, presentation by Emilie Appercé, Leo Bettini, Dominic Kim |
03.2021 | The Power of Mushrooms: Berta Rahm’s Pavilion for the Saffa 58 Entangled Histories, presentations by Emilie Appercé and Helen Thomas (Women Writing Architecture), gta Exhibitions, ETH Zürich |
Design: Romy Strasser — Code: Till Kammertöns
suns.works’gallery took up residence on the top floor former headquarters of Credit Suisse of the Hochhaus zur Palme, a modernist high-rise in Zurich, before its imminent transformation. Aggressively futuristic at the time, projecting a confidence in never-ending progress, it is now a landmark.
The show embraced the high-modernist aesthetics of Hochhaus zur Palme and the sombre atmosphere of the eponymous story of New Rose Hotel, whose techno-erotic vision of the future, coloured by millennial anxiety, appears much closer to present-day sensibilities.
set design together with Matthew Phillips. Exhibition participation, Manon Gaeschlin, Martin Jaeggi.
Photos credits Flavio Leone
Stool produced for Milano Design Week 2021
6 mm recycled moulded plastic
41x ø38 cm / 6kg 4 colour options
Photos credits Dominic Kim, Selina Feuerstein
conversation with Anders Byriel, CEO of Kvadrat, textile makers compagny, as part of this publication, on the question of patronage, legacy, narratives, pleasure and celebration.
The Triple Folly presents the rich collaboration between artist Thomas Demand, architects Caruso St John, and Kvadrat which produced a new pavilion for Kvadrat’s Ebeltoft campus.
This publication presents extensive images of the completed buildings alongside other illustrated conversations with Frank Gehry, Denise Scott Brown, Adam Caruso, Valerie Verhack, and Thomas Demand.
Zurich International, Zürich (CH)
2022-on going
transformation and adaptive re-use of the Zurich International office
together with members of the Zurich International Verein
In 2022, the chair of Jan de Vylder at ETH Zurich began a 3-year experiment at the Furka Pass, (in:dépendance), 2429m above sea level and only accessible 4 months a year.
Women Writing Architecture represented by Helen Thomas, London-Zürich based architect, publisher, Jaehee Shin, architect, WWA editor born in Korea, and Emilie Appercé,
met together in this high Swiss pass to consider the work of a woman from a far distant time and place.
Led by D. Graham Burnett, Professor of History and History of Science at Princeton University and Hermione Spriggs, London-based artist, researcher.
At The Watermill Center, founded by theater and visual artist Robert Wilson.
Together with Graham Burnett, Hermione Spriggs, Catherine Hansen, Kyle Berlin, Anacarolina Marques, Brad Fox.
Place de Stalingrad, Paris (F)
2020-on going
Client: Private
Project of a winter bar Place de la Bataille de Stalingrad
Steel truss structure, outer skin of galvanised steel corrugated sheet, PVC slatted opening closures
Museumstrasse, Biel (CH)
2021
In collaboration with Silvio Schubiger
Restoration of a single-family house in a former villa divided into three parts.
3d scanned documentation of the on going construction site
Polpo is presented at Salone del Milano
5.–10. Sept. 2021